What Thursdays mean to me
Thursdays were my favorite day of the week at work. I could find myself doing different sections of the paper at any week. Honestly, I like variety and having something different to do at my desk.
Well, now my Thursdays are to be spent at home. When I started this job, I had Thursdays off. Returning to them now feels weird, but I have to look at all the bright sides:
- I don’t have to wait in long lines at the grocery store, unlike on Fridays. I can find what I want, purchase it and bag in under 20 minutes. That’s better than the 40+ minutes I use per trip on Fridays.
- More opponents to play against on XBox Live. It makes Rock Band even more enjoyable.
- Great time for baking and napping, the Garfield philosophy of life.
- Thinking of how normal people have normal weekends.
permalink | Comment | occupational | 05/17/2008
May's the word
The following are poems from the Magnetic Poetry calendar for the month of May, with all the words beginning with the same letter:
- beautiful | breeze | bird | blossom | between | behind | believe
- spring | spark | skin | summer | squirrel | sweet | snow
- gentle | good | garden | giggle | ground | grow | green
- heart | have | how | hot | hard | here | has
- make | mind | my | man | machine | morning | month
- leave | life | light | little | luck | look | like
This last one is purely of grabbing seven random tiles and placing them vertically onto the board:
use | a | from | year | work | present | do
permalink | Comment | domestic | 05/12/2008
Listen to this right now!
Since finding photos of this singer while on the Associated Press Exchange two months ago, I’ve been eagerly waiting for her album to come. If you don’t know her by now, get educated to the musical genius that is Santogold:
permalink | Comment | music | 05/06/2008
Life complicates everything
Reunion in Washington, D.C., in 2005
It’s that time of the year again when my college friends and I plan our annual reunion. It’s always a great time to be had to spend with the Lovelies each summer. It’s also the time I remember that working for a newspaper is a 365-day job whereas most people have things called “weekends” which occur on days like Saturday and Sunday.
At my old job, I would have to sacrifice overtime and two to three vacation days in order to get the weekend off to go. I’d return to work with disgruntle co-workers who don’t like to work the weekends and get ticked for working on two of them in a year, whereas I did this 50 weeks a year.
But now with my Pennsylvania job, I’m adjusting to having an extra vacation week, but my weeks have to be taken during certain months of the year. Plus, there are more employees to compete with for time. So I have to juggle which shift someone is taking time off and when it will happen, who will fill in for that person’s spot and how would the desk look like.
It’s almost as though I must put something into an equation and get a result. I also realize how much we take weekends and holidays for granted. I mean, no one doesn’t want to get their newspaper delivered just because it’s Independence Day or something in that fashion. Nevertheless it’s a bit more flexible now and less back-breaking here.
What’s funny this year is that I’m taking that week off to visit every family member with the 400 or so miles I will travel. I just hope that they will be home. They have to tendency to go on vacation and not tell anyone.
permalink | Comment [1] | occupational | 05/04/2008
Just in case you're joining us late
I have enough daily experiences lately to make individual posts about them, so I figured that I would do this in bullet form:
- I found a CD that I had thought I lost three years ago. It was behind the front passenger seat in my vehicle the whole time. I was very happy to find it, even though it’s not my favorite. When I lost it, I fell into a deep depression because I had always been careful with my CD collection. For 10 years, I never lost a single one. When I lost this one, my system fell apart, and now I have three CDs missing and my collection is all over the place.
- My alma mater now has a new logo. At first glance, I didn’t like it and wondered what it was replacing. Then I found out that it was substituting a very poorly designed, generic one, I say bravo. Then again, this is in the land where the city’s motto is “O!”
- Just found out that there is no archive of my college paper from May 2000 to December 2002. Why is this significant? I was on the editorial board from August 2000 to May 2002. My record stops with my stint as an assistant editorial editor. No arts & entertainment editor/features editor/graphics editor record for me.
- I’ve been playing The Sims 2 too much. I’m engaged in the Royal Kingdom Challenge for about five weeks now.
- Watching Veronica Mars, Season 2 again. I started around August when I didn’t have satellite or Internet when I moved to PA. Now, I watch it on Saturday nights. That was until…
- My work schedule got switched. I now have Wednesdays and Thursdays off. No more Fridays and Saturdays. That also means that I no longer have my second job. For now until May 10, I’m enjoying my last remaining free Fridays with either movie runs or short day trips.
- I never thought I would say this, but there is too much ice cream in my freezer. There’s more ice cream than there is meat in the refrigerator. An ice cream bar is now dinner for me, and I can’t seem to stop myself.
permalink | Comment [1] | observations | 05/01/2008
It's 1994 all over again
Am I the only North American who is overly excited that Portishead will have a new album out next week? I even pre-ordered it, which is something I have never EVER done.
permalink | Comment [1] | music | 04/25/2008
More than a stump
I saw former President Bill Clinton at a campaign rally for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. I’ve snapped a few photos and have made an entry at Cartophobic. And don’t forget to check out the flickr photostream to the right.
permalink | Comment | out and about | 04/21/2008
April's circle poems
I forgot to post my March poems from my Magnetic Poetry calendar, but those were stinkers. So here are my April circle poems:
- want | essential | life | heart | mind | will | must | have
- sky | blue | green | nature | garden | spring | rain | weather
- present | birthday | happy | giggle | lively | dark | past | future
- fruit | sweet | taste | feel | skin | man | machine | plastic
- work | fired | sparks | light | night | dream | imagine | play | hard
- sun | hot | summer | winter | snow | fall | behind | moon
- good | bad | tricked | out | about | time | morning
I haven’t done a circle poem since high school.
permalink | Comment | domestic | 04/15/2008
The fatal touch
This week, and it’s only Thursday, I have killed three computers and an Xbox, had a small kitchen fire and escaped two aggressive panhandlers. I’m lucky to be alive.
permalink | Comment [1] | nevermind her | 04/10/2008
Awesomeness update
I’ve uploaded my photos from the Obama rally and posted a video on Vimeo from the event.